Hi Pierre,

Have a look at the code of your blog that generates the main page. There you find some (probably) php code that you can easily re-use in B2evo. Depending on the skin you want to use you place the snippet in ,,/blogs/skins/*yourskin*/index.main.php or _sidebar.inc.php.
If you want more information. I'd be glad to help but I have no knowledge about pMachine. Furthermore there are other scripts available. But re-using your script has the advantage that you dont need to type the quotes again.

Good luck

I would like to use such a plugin as well.

Could someone provide some guidenlines about developing such a plugin? I am not a PHP programmer, but I could give it a try.

how bout just creating another blog for quotes and placing a 'post list' widget.. it has the ability show at random.. this is a perfect solution i guess.. type in the author of the quote as title, and the quote in content then it will show in the sidebar like

someone [post title]
"this is a quote" [content]

Moreover, there is a nice plugin [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewtopic.php?t=14913] _quote_cats.plugin by Afwas[/url]
more info about the technique in his page: [url=http://www.blog.hemminga.net/index.php/tutorials/?title=manipulating-the-title-with-a-plugin&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1]Manipulating the title with a plugin[/url]

This is a custom plugin which Afwas made just for me (thanks once more), it can be easily used for quote engines, if you d like to use it
it takes the "main cat" then inserts "said:" (or whatever text u like) about these things "tags"
then it turns out to be: lets say "Albert Einstein said sth about : physics science" etc..

hope this will do good for you.. cheers

Here's a simple one that can easily be folded into either your html or a container...
http://www.darrenfauth.com/php/random-quote-php.php

Hmmm...

tilqicom, this sounds good, but I am looking for a solution for 1.10.x.

The drawback is that I will have to create a user in b2evo for each quote, and I think that is redundant.